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As a professional tax preparer, time is of the essence during tax season. To help save you time and be more efficient as a preparer, we have compiled several lesser known features of TaxAct Professional that will do just that.

TaxAct will be performing regular maintenance between 4:00 AM and 8:00 AM central on Thursday, May 10, 2018. As a TaxAct Professional user, you may experience intermittent disruptions to sign-in and accessing online returns. Maintenance is expected to conclude by 8 AM central. Thank you for your patience!

With tax season 2017 behind us, you may already be thinking ahead to how you can improve your tax practice in the “off season”. For many of you, attending trade shows is one way to not only earn valuable continuing education credits, but to browse the show floor for the latest and greatest tax preparation […]

We all know self-employed clients are immensely valuable. Want insider tips on how to maximize their business deductions, without relying on risky mileage estimates? Have questions about your small business, independent contractor or freelance clients? Wondering how other tax preparers are using Everlance to improve their practice? Learn insider tips from the creators of Everlance […]

The online data backup service included with your TaxAct 2014 Preparer’s Enterprise Edition(s) expires May 1, 2018. After this date, you will no longer be able to access your 2014 client data online. We recommend downloading your client data from our secure servers before May 1, 2018. Open your TaxAct 2014 Preparer’s Enterprise Edition software. […]

With the IRS extending the filing deadline an extra day, there’s a workaround for those of you filing extensions and requesting a direct debit for your client’s tax due. On this screen in the e-filing steps, it will default to today’s date of 04/18/2018, but it will need to be updated to 04/17/2018 in order […]

Via the Internal Revenue Service — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline. Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight […]

We’ve been seeing intermittent issues with VPS systems not being able to process credit card payments of taxes due when attempting to “Pay Now” during the filing of the return. If you are seeing issues with this payment option, please have your clients pay their tax due by an alternate method: Pay by Debit or […]

*UPDATE (4/17/18 at 6:30pm central)* The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline. Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight […]

*UPDATE (4/17/18 at 6:30pm central)* The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline. Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight […]

As we close in on the final week before the April tax filing deadline, we wanted to pass along some quick tips on how you can efficiently track your clients’ e-filed returns. We highly suggest utilizing the “Fed EF Status” column as a quick and easy way to check the status of your client’s e-filed […]

TaxAct will be performing regular maintenance between 3:00 AM and 7:00 AM central on Thursday, April 5th, 2018. As a TaxAct Professional user, you may experience intermittent connection issues during that time. Maintenance is expected to conclude by 7 AM central. Thank you for your patience!

Listed below are the updated hours for TaxAct Professional Support. These hours are effective immediately and will run through the end of tax season (April 17, 2018).

We all know self-employed clients are immensely valuable to a tax prep office. Their returns tend to be longer and more complex than the average client’s and, therefore, more profitable.

TaxAct Professional supports the completion of Form 4868 (Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Income Tax Return) for your client’s federal return, as well as any necessary extension forms for states, if applicable. Form 4868 must be filed by the regular due date of the return. Please Note: Filing an extension ONLY extends the […]